Quick Specs

Publisher's Description

EZHostCheck is a tool created in response to the many tools that already existed that were in my opinion overly complex and costly. Most people have a series of hosts they wish to monitor to ensure their availability but can't spend a bunch of time and resources monitoring them. There are a number of tools which will ping (ICMP) a host and alert when the ping fails, however many times, the host will respond just fine to pings, but the service the host is providing (ie. http, smtp, etc.) will have stopped resulting in that host no longer serving that tcp port request (ie. 80,25,etc.)

With EZHostCheck you add the hosts you wish to monitor and specify if you wish to monitor the host via ICMP or check for the existence of an open TCP port. Moreover, you will be able to choose the desired level of alerting for each host. The result is that each host entry in the monitored list, can have a different monitoring type (ICMP or TCP Port), alert notifications (Play a sound file or send an email) and status levels (you can disable one of the hosts if you know it will be down for a period of time so that it will not bombard you with alerts, etc.) This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Really just a wish list:1.Emailing requires access to an SMTP server that doesn't need authentication.2.Can't be minimized while running.

Summary

I've noticed that a lot of people were wishing that EZHostCheck could auto start.

I wrote a VBScript (attached) to do just that. First make certain you get it working by manually starting it.Then just paste the following into Notepad. Save it as EZHostCheck.VBS into the same folder as EZHostCheck.Exe. Place a shortcut to it in the startup folder. Done.===================================================================' Scripted by D.L. Elsner 7/16/2010 with thanks to Jesse Breaker of Dark Chip Data' First create the program environment Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' Start up EZHostCheckWshShell.Run "EZHostCheck.exe"

' Give EZHostCheck time to loadWScript.Sleep 500

'Press the down arrow three times and EnterFor i = 1 To 3 WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"NextWshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

' Leave EZHostCheck open and runningWScript.Sleep 500

Updated on Jul 19, 2010

I've found that the "WScript.Sleep" value of 500 under " ' Give EZHostCheck time to load" may not always be enough. On some machines with slow virus scanners I had to use a value of 5000!

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